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Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007

Someone set us up the mother of all panels.

2007-10-12-base

"Harvard scientists predict the future of the past tense"

[create Erez Lieberman], [create Jean-Baptiste Michel], [create Joe Jackson], [create Tina Tang], Martin Nowak: Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language

"The half-life of an irregular verb scales as the square root of its usage frequency: a verb that is 100 times less frequent regularizes 10 times as fast."

Nature News: How 'holp' became 'helped'

www.languagedata.org

Language Log Coverage

2007-10-12-paFu

Bosworth's back.

2007-10-12-bb

motz 6344 days AGO
ah, thanks for the pointer. i already get a xy feeling when i have to read: "uniting ... but maybe i don't have to bother, considering their m* policy.

chris 6343 days AGO
One more char, or two?

motz 6341 days AGO
m*: edia
uniting: eu
enough ;)

chris 6341 days AGO
there were some interesting m-hypotheses ... ;-)

motz 6340 days AGO
imagination can often be more fun than reality, i fear. btw i will be there and you?

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